Number of illustrations
438
Dimensions
W 10 x L 13 x D 1.8 in
Cover materials
Matt finished hardcover
Author
Foreword by Michael Jordan, Text by Adam Bradley
About The Author:
Adam Bradley is the author or editor of multiple books, including The Anthology of Rap and the national bestseller One Day It’ll All Make Sense, a memoir he wrote with the rapper and actor Common. He has written extensively about sports, sneaker culture, and design, contributing a chapter to Nike: Form Follows Motion and an essay celebrating Nike’s 50th anniversary. As a writer at large for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, he writes about music, art, and popular culture. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a professor of English and African American Studies at UCLA. As founding director of UCLA’s Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture (a.k.a. the RAP Lab), Adam pioneered the study of rap lyrics as poetry.
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